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TIFU by doing my job.

This happened before I even had a Reddit account but I realized it fits perfectly in this sub.

In college I worked maintenance at our basketball teams arena, basically janitor work but had some other duties. I used to love our “post-clean” shifts where after the game or concert ended I’d start my shift and orchestrate the clean up with whatever organization was doing the majority of the clean. My main role was to fill up rolling dumpsters and empty them into the trash compactor.

On this particular night as I was going to the trash bay I noticed a cart full of covered aluminum pans by the door. In 99% of these situations that means that whatever it is is meant to be trashed. Out of curiosity I peeked in one of the pans and saw it was full of chicken tenders from the concessions. I figured why not munch on one if it’s meant to be thrown out.

I felt kinda weird throwing out a ton of food but why would it be near the trash bay if it’s not meant to be thrown out?

A few hours later I’m sitting in my supervisors office waiting for the crews to finish up. He’s scrolling Facebook on his computer and says “oh wow this chick is pissed”.

He shows me the post and it’s a lady who works in the concessions ranting about how shitty it was for someone to throw out tons of food that was meant to be dropped off at a homeless shelter. My stomach sunk to the floor as I realized that was the food I had thrown out earlier. And like anybody else would have in that situation, I just said “wow what a shitty thing to do, I bet karma will get their ass”.

TLDR: thought I was doing a good job by throwing out a cart full of food, accidentally threw out food meant for the homeless.

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